Owen Carron

Owen Carron (February 1953-) was a Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 20 August 1981 to 9 June 1983, succeeding Bobby Sands and preceding Ken Maginnis.

Biography
Owen Carron was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland in February 1953 to an Irish Catholic family. He became involved in Irish republican politics with the Sinn Fein party during the late 1970s, and he was Bobby Sands' election agent during the 1981 parliamentary elections. In August 1981, he was elected to Parliament in the by-election following Sands' death during the 1981 Irish hunger strike, but he lost the election to Ulster Unionist Party candidate Bobby Sands due to the Social Democratic and Labor Party splitting the vote. He became a builder and a teacher, and the British government gave him amnesty in 2002, despite his involvement with the Provisional IRA.